Yale’s First Women Ph.D.s, by artist Brenda Zlamany
In January 2014, the Yale Women Faculty Forum began the search for an artist to create a portrait to honor the first seven women to earn PhDs at Yale and to commemorate the opening of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to women in 1892.
These pioneering alumnae were among the first women to earn doctorates in the United States. The portrait is displayed in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.
Archival research by the Yale Women Faculty Forum has yielded photographs of six of the seven women, along with information about their scholarship, fields of study, and professional accomplishments. For the one woman whose picture is not available yet, we have a photograph of her sister. An article on the 7 women with photographs that appeared in the Yale Alumni magazine can be accessed here.
Additional information about the artist, the installation and biographies of the women, link to YaleNews, here.